Apparatus for pressing garments



. J. W; T HORP. TAILOR'S PRESSING MACHINE.

No. 8,598, Patented Dec. 16, 1851.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOSEPH W. THORP, OF SOUTH VVEARE, NEYV HAMPSHIRE.

APPARATUS FOR PRESSING GARMENTS.

Specification of Letters Patent No. 8,598, dated December 16, 1851.

To all whom it may concern: 7

Be it known that I, JOSEPH WEBSTER THonr, of South WVeare, in the county of Hillsboro and State of New Hampshire, have invented a new and useful Tailors Pressing-Machine, and that the following description, taken in connection with the accompanying drawings, hereinafter referred to, forms a full and exact specification of the same, wherein I have set forth the nature and rinciples of my said invention, by which it may be distinguished from others of a similar class, together with such parts as I claim and desire to have secured to me by Letters Patent.

The figures of the accompanying plate of drawings represent my said pressing ma chine.

Figure l is a plan of the same. Fig. 2 is an end view, and Fig. 3 a longitudinal vertical section, taken in the plane of the line A B Figs. 1 and 2.

The object and purpose of my machine, is to provide a platform or tailors board, on which the work to be pressed is supported, which shall be heated to a proper degree, by hot irons, placed within an air chamber, of which said platform or board is the top; also to arrange a goose, similarly heated, over said platform, as that it may be moved in all requisite directions, and with degrees of pressure, so as to relieve the hand of the pressman, and at the same time do the work as thoroughly, and even more so, than it is now done by hand.

C C C in the several figures represent the framework of the machine, constructed as shown, or in any other desirable way.

D D is a metallic platform, answering to the uses of the common tailors pressing board, said platform being hung at E E, so as to make the top of the heating platform box F F F, shaped as shown in Fig. 1; the casing of said box being double, so as to leave an air chamber G G, around the inner box H H, which holds the heating iron I I, which after being heated in any suitable furnace, is placed in said inner box, to impart the proper degree of heat to the platform D D, on which the work to be pressed is laid. The position of this platform box and all its appendages is susceptible of adjustment by means of the supporting screws K K, and nuts L L, and the bar N N, on the top of the screw 0 O, which is raised and lowered and held in any desired parent from inspection of the sectional drawing (Fig. 3.)

The goose or pressing iron is composed of the heating iron Q Q, inserted in the case It B, so as to leave an air space about the same at S S, said case having a proper handle, by which the pressman governs the motion of the goose, and being suspended by holes through the eye pieces T T, on the long rod U U. This rod U U is supported in the ends of the prongs V V, of the forked end of the vertical arm IV W W, and one of the eye pieces T, slides on said rod U U, between the aforesaid prongs V V, and the other one on the outside of the same, as shown in Fig. 2, and so as to give a sufficient longitudinal play to the goose, when the arm V V \V W is in any desired position. The vertical arm or spindle V V W- W is supported in, and suspended from the carriage a, a, a a, b b (composed of the plates (4 a, (A a, and connecting pillars b b) so as to swivel or turn on its axis, and also to move vertically in the direction of its length, being hung for this purpose, by means of the collar 0, secured to the arm, and which collar rests on the spiral spring 05 d, coiled around said arm, which plays up and down in the guide holes, formed in top and bottom plates (0 a, a a. of the carriage. This carriage is provided with four grooved wheels f, f, f, f which move on the transverse rails g, g, the whole width of the machine, and at any point along said width, or on the said rails, the goose may be depressed upon the platform, by means of the bent lever h h, which has a fulcrum on the carriage a a &c., at i, which lever passes over, and rests on the top of the arm V V W W', its outer end being pressed upon by a long lever 7c is, which has a fulcrum in the framework C C C, at is, and is operated through the medium of the connecting rod Z Z, by the treadle frame m m, by depressing which with the foot, the goose will be brought down upon the platform, with any degree of pressure which may be desired.

By the above described arrangement of the goose, it will be seen that provision is made for its motion in every desired direction, over the platform, that is over the length of said platform, or in a direction transverse to the same, or in any diagonal direction, or in a circular direction, the amount of pressure being produced and regulated by the foot, and the goose being merely guided or controlled by the hand, so that a much greater quantity of work may be done in this machine, than by the ordinary mode of pressing, by a much more advantageous application of power, and with less fatigue to the pressman. The details of my machine, it will readily be seen may be varied by the substitution of mechanical equivalents for the devices which I have adopted; but the essential features must be preserved, in order to produce a practical pressing machine.

Having thus described my improvements, I shall state my claims as follows:

IVhat I claim as my invention, and desire to have secured to me by Letters Patent, is

1. Suspending the goose in a tailors pressing machine, from a carriage traveling on rails, on the end of a vertical spindle, also arranging said spindle, so that it may be moved vertically, and swivel or turn upon its axis, substantially as herein above set forth;

2. I also claim, arranging said goose upon the rod, passing through the forked end of said spindle, so that it may slide forward, and back, upon said rod, as herein above set forth. v

3. Furthermore, I claim the combination of a goose, arranged substantially as herein above described, so as to move in the several directions specified, with a platform box, susceptible of adjustment, as specified, and heated substantially as herein above set forth.

JOSEPH W. THORP.

Witnesses:

ALoNzo D. NICHOLS, E, S. WORTHEN. 

